#nib

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#fork #progress #uses

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. ↗

— Hermann Oberth

#barely #brightly #discernible #educational #forward

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#called #cannibal #comedy #elements #film

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#babies #buddhists #cannibalism #disgust #feed

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. ↗

— John Sununu

#because #benefited #cannibal #changed #competitors

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ↗

— James Beard

#believe #cannibalism #enough #ever #had

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people. ↗

— William P. Young

#cannibal #i #i was raised #people #raised

A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#cannibalism #death #french-revolution #massacre #age

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#death #hannibal #death

Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal. ↗

— R.C. Robertson-Glasgow

#bradman #cricket #england #hannibal #italy